Events

This walk features some gentle slopes and uneven terrain. Repeats every Saturday.

Learn what to plant now and how to prepare for the new growing season. Hosted by the Woodford Greeners.

The East London Shakespeare Festival will stage its last open-air performance of the season.

Monthly market offering a wide range of food and craft products.

Help cut back plants and tidy up.

A creative time in the woods with local artist Jo Wood.

For retired NHS and social care staff.

For girls aged 11 and over. Repeated on 11 August.

For people struggling with feelings of loss.

Join author Sara Stanley for a fun retelling of family stories. Suitable for three- to seven-year-olds. Booking required.

Open to all.

Repeated at 2pm.

Celebrate National Play Day with a Teddy Bears' picnic rhyme time, craft activities and games, including giant falling bricks and snakes and ladders. The event will relocate to Wanstead Library if the weather is bad.

An interactive course for four- to 11-year-olds. Covering how to contact the emergency services, how to help someone who is choking, wounds and bleeding, CPR, defibrillation and more.

Drop-in session organised by NCT Redbridge and District. Repeats weekly.

Enjoy three wines and meet other new mums.

A networking event open to all artists, both members and non-members of the Visual Artists Association. Booking required.

Pop in for coffee and cake and find out what’s coming up next term at Wanstead House.

Food, games, live music and entertainment.

Children aged four to 10 are invited to design and make mini kite decorations.

Hosted by the Friends of Wanstead Parklands.

Monthly book club. This month's meeting will be discussing Prophet Song by Paul Lynch.

Suitable for four- to 12-year-olds.

An open-air performance by Illyria.

For people struggling with feelings of loss.

Repeated at 2pm.

Children aged four to 11 are invited to create a tiger friend inspired by the classic story of The Tiger Who came to Tea by Judith Kerr.

An East London and Essex Electronic Keyboard Club event.

Lego and Duplo activities for all ages. More dates and times available.

Qualify, win team medals and be in your very own Olympic ceremony with Pākiki Theatre’s Who Wants To Be An Olympian?, a show that celebrates Olympics and Paralympics past, present and future. Suitable for children aged five and over.

Help keep Wanstead tidy.

A family sports day to mark the launch of Toddletics, which runs sports classes for kids.

Monthly market offering a range of products.

All welcome.

Demonstrations by Woodford and District Floral Arrangement Group members. Visitors welcome.

Demonstrations by members of the Woodford and District Floral Arrangement Group. Visitors welcome.

For people struggling with feelings of loss.

Children aged four to 11 are invited to create a tiger friend inspired by the classic story of The Tiger Who came to Tea by Judith Kerr.

Repeated at 2pm.

Children aged four to 11 are invited to decorate and plant up cress pots.

Some gentle slopes and uneven terrain.

A multi award-winning, family-friendly, improvised storytelling show suitable for children aged six and over.

A five-mile walk from Manor Park Station, around Wanstead Flats, Wanstead Park and Alexandra Lake.

An family musical by Illyria.

Repeated at 2pm.

Local magician Ben Hartley will be sharing some of his secrets.

Children aged four to 10 are invited to create a colourful fishy friend, inspired by the stories about Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister.

A show by Coppice Theatre with live music, puppetry and storytelling. Suitable for children aged five and over.

Including fashion, jewellery, homewares and books.

An afternoon celebrating the Skylarks of Wanstead Flats.